Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig NPG D35108

© National Portrait Gallery, London

supplement to Illustrated London News, after John St Helier Lander

Commissioned into a cavalry regiment in 1885, by 1904 Haig had become the youngest major general in the British Army. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he helped organise the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), commanded by Field-Marshal John French. In 1915 he replaced French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF and directed British campaigns including the Somme in 1916. Haig's tactics in these battles were and still are considered controversial by many including the then Prime Minister Lloyd George. After the war Haig... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.